Man, FINALLY some good news from GOG. They were screwing up pretty bad for a while there. First Devotion, then Cyberpunk, then HITMAN 2016. I was starting to question their ability to make rational decisions. Well, I still do, only less now.

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Next up, they’ve decided you need another launcher with the Humble app, which will only be supported on Windows

Hm, yes, I see. Windows only again. The GOG approach, as it were. Because if we learned anything, it's that the best way to attract new customers is to piss off your existing ones.

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I'm excited to play the 1.0 release, but considering this game is still in alpha after all these years, I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever get to play it.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: ixnari

Quoting: TheSHEEEPMight check it out again, then.

When I tried it the first time, I was just overwhelmed with 10000000 options right from the get-go.
I vastly prefer when games open up gradually and let you ease in first.

I think you would just adore Hearts of Iron 3.

Never played that, actually.
But I have hundreds of hours in HoI4.

Really not the same kind of problem. HoI is complex, obviously, and it takes a LONG time to understand what's going on but once you know what's happening, there are really only a few options left you can pick. And what your actual goals are is never an unknown.
Unless HoI3 is very different from 4, the only part that really overflows with "options fatigue" is the army and especially ship designer.

Games like X4 or Voxel Turf have a similar problem to Avorion:
They aren't that hard to understand, and it is rather clear what your choices are but the games fail to provide the player with any short- or mid-term goals to provide context and help decide which choices you should actually pick.
"What do I actually want to do? What to build for?" is a question I find hard to answer when a game just dumps the player somewhere with all options open right away.

As a very good example on how to avoid this and still be VERY open, I'd take Minecraft.
You can do absolutely anything eventually, yet your first steps are extremely limited. And with each step, more options on what to do next become available.

Fair enough. I actually meant HOI4, for some reason I thought 3 was the latest. Whoops. Anyway, when it comes to visually intimidating games, I usually think of Paradox games. I tried CK2 and EU4 several times and bounced off of both. Too much information to absorb for my liking.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPMight check it out again, then.

When I tried it the first time, I was just overwhelmed with 10000000 options right from the get-go.
I vastly prefer when games open up gradually and let you ease in first.

I think you would just adore Hearts of Iron 3.

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Quoting: EikeOh my godness, why did you make me so curious to look at this... this... THIS?!?

Yeah, I had a feeling you'd be keen to look at it. That was awful, sorry.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyQuoting: ixnari

Quoting: HerrLange
Where is Commander Keen?

Probably in recovery after going through this shit. Thankfully, Zenimax seems to have scrubbed every mention of this "game", so Keen might get a remake yet!

What the hell did I just watch? Please tell me that's not actually an upcoming game?

Answering very, very late, but: thankfully, no. It was upccoming game at some point, but the backlash was too much (thank goodness) and they've scrapped the project.

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Props to the dev for doing this. It's refreshing to see a dev turn around and reassess the situation instead of just ditching Linux and macOS support and being done with it. I already have (and have finished!) Turnip Boy, but I'll be sure to buy some extra copies to give to my friends. This kind of behaviour needs to be encouraged.

EDIT: Might be worth noting that Turnip Boy is also available on itch.io [External Link].

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I really dig their art style, I'll definitely be getting this somewhere down the line. Is this also coming to DRM-free platforms like itch or GOG? I would prefer to buy it there, but I don't mind getting it on Steam.

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Quoting: torhamI'm under the impression that, like Minecraft, this game has DRM and you must login everytime you play. Yuck.

Just once, actually. Then it lets you play offline whenever. It doesn't make it any less annoying, though.

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